Improvement in cooking-vessels



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM W. TICE, OF CALIFORNIA, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-VESSELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,479, dated September 17, 18712.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. TICE, of California, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a Cooking-Vessel, of which the lfollowing is a specication:

Although applicable to all boiling-vessels, my invention is particularly designed as an improvement on the ordinary east pot for boiling purposes; and consists, as to its first part, in the provision upon the lid of such a pot of two ears, whereby the lifting-bail is supported in a convenient position for being grasped by the operator, and whereby, also, said bail be comes effective to hold the lid securely upon the pot without scalding the operators hands in the act of drawing oif the liquid contents; and my invention consists, as to its second part, in the provision of a 1u g or handle, which, projecting from the side of the pot-body, is used, in conjunction with the elements of the said first part, in tipping or tilting of the pot for drawing its contents, as aforesaid.

In the accompanying drawing, a pot embodyin g my invention is represented by Figure l in the erect, and by Fig. 2 in the tilted, position. Y

A is the pot-body, B, a lug or cast projection from said body, near its lower end, and in vertical plane at right angles to that of the lifting-bail C. Projecting from the lid D, both of them on the `same side of and near to the bailears E E', are two rests, F F', which serve to support the lifting-bail in ahorizontal posi-- tion convenient for grasping, and which also enables the operator to hold down the lid by means of the said bail in the operation of drawing off the liquid contents of the pot without danger of scalding her hands in so doing.

In the drawing these rests are shown as being secured to the lid with rivets, but it is evident that said rests and lid may be struck up from a single piece of sheet metal, so as to dispense with rivets or other attachments. In some cases it may be desirable to cast the lid and its rests in one piece.

Claim.

set my hand.

- WILLIAM W. TICE.

Attest:

G. H. KNIGHT, J .ii/IES H. LAYMAN. 

